Edit: It has been brought to my attention that Sriracha is now more than just a brand sauce. Other brands make sriracha and have been known to add shrimp paste. Please note, Huy Fong, the dominant provider of Sriracha Sauce, does NOT have shrimp paste or fish sauce.

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36 comments for “Is Sriracha Sauce Vegan?”

What about asking “Is it good for me?” Then the answer would be different. Vegan is good and great and definitely how I roll, but healthy is just as important. Look at those ingredients. Sugar is second on the list. That means it’s theirs a ton of it in there. And what about potassium sorbate and sodium bisulfite? My rule — if a product has stuff in it that I know is bad for me, it’s out. If it has stuff in it that I can’t point to in nature, it’s gone. If it’s got stuff in it that I don’t know what the hell it is, can’t buy it in the store, or can’t grow it . . . . it ain’t going into my body.

I like being healthy too. In fact, in the last two weeks, I made my own hot sauce TWICE. Courtesy of a co-worker with an abundance of habanero peppers. Everything that went into the hot sauce contained ingredients I could pronounce … 😉

Hallo, I’m vegan due to animals, not for my health. I was fruitarian 80/10/10 for 11 years. and now I fuck this, I return to cooked vegan food, I love it. My first reason was animals, and it will be last reason too 🙂

I am vegan also for the animals but, I also take care of myself because if I stay healthy I can help the animals better than if I am sick. Besides, if we get sick, they always say it’s because we are vegans and that is another reason for us vegans to eat as healthy as we can.

How are we sure that the sugar is vegan vs. bone char sugar? I wouldn’t touch this stuff with a ten foot pole bc it’s horrible for you and I follow 811 anyway, but what about vegans who are vegan for animals alone? Do we have clarification from the company that this sugar is vegan??

Not to nitpick, but if you ate everything that nature intended you to, you would be using those canines for their intended purpose. Vegans are not more healthy than vegetarians or normal meat and potatoes people, no matter what you say.

Vegans and vegetarians can certainly be just as unhealthy as anyone. But I will contend with the point that vegans and vegetarians are much more conscious of what they eat and what they put in their bodies. I wonder what the ratio o fMcDonalds Dollar Deal eaters to super unhealthy vegan donut eaters is. I’d guess less, much less.

Nature does not “intend” anything, because nature is a concept, not a person. But even if nature _did_ intend consequences, then it seems you would be committed against use of the Internet, because… you know… it’s not natural.

If you respond by claiming that anything humans do is natural, then veganism is natural.

You say that vegans are “not more healthy than … normal meat and potatoes people, no matter what you say.” Really? No matter _what_ we say? You are saying that we could provide a litany of evidence in favor of the health superiority of a vegan diet, and you would simply dismiss it? Breathtaking.

If you don’t mind, I’m going to place more weight on the available scientific evidence than your anecdotal gibberish.

@adam that is entirely untrue. Read Colin t. Campbell read the starch solution by dr.mcdougall those who follow a high carb mostly raw vegan diet are vastly superior in health. Meat and dairy cause cancer. This has been proven. So even if one is just follows a standard vegan diet with no extra attention paid to health, their diet and health will still be better than a vegetarian or meat eater.

you are wrong about 2 things:
1 – incisor teeth are for cutting food such as apples.
2 – vegans are healthier than meat eaters. 1 example of that is cholesterol level of meat eaters.

i’ve been vegan a long time. ive heard a lot of meat eaters, including you, rationalize why they are right, and i’m wrong.
really, it comes down to will power. eating meat, cheese, etc. is an addiction which most people can’t give up.

Is it healthy? I don’t think people are going to drink it or make a soup out of it. They probably just want to drizzle a little on top of some vegan tacos. Try not to be so judgemental- all things in moderation.